CuspAI

Overview

Cambridge, UK materials-discovery startup (founded 2024 by Dr. Chad Edwards and Prof. Max Welling) using generative AI as a “search engine” for physical materials across clean energy, semiconductors, manufacturing, water treatment, and carbon capture. Customers include ASML and meta. Advisers include geoffrey-hinton and Yann LeCun.

Funding

• Seed ~$30M (2024)
• Series A $100M+at$520M (Sep 2025)
• Series B $450Mat$2.6B (Jul 2026) — co-led kleiner-perkins / NEA; significant jeff-bezos Expeditions; uk-sovereign-ai-fund
• Total capital >$670M

Related

• cuspai-450m-series-b-bezos-sovereign-ai
• ai-materials-foundry
• physical-ai
• ai-sovereignty
• private-markets
• nvidia
• samsung

Sources

• cuspai-450m-series-b-bezos-sovereign-ai
• 2026-07-20-cuspai-medium-announcement
• 2026-07-20-cuspai-businesswire-foundry